Louie Zamperini was just a boy who liked to cause trouble. He would sneak around and steal many things. But little did he know that once he had got involved in war, the plane he was in, would crash with only 3 people surviving including himself. Louie and the two men that had also survived try to find ways of staying alive, using the objects that they only had in the raft. Once one of their partners passed away right in front of them, they soon got captured by the Japanese and were very mistreated. After Louie had stopped stealing, his brother Pete had encouraged him into running. He then started practicing and ran everywhere. Soon enough, he had won about every meet he had, even beating the high schoolers. With everything coming so fast, Louie then realized he was at the Olympics. In the novel, Unbroken Lauren Hillenbrand uses Louie’s life experiences to show his two most important …show more content…
He and his roommates come up with clever ideas to survive or even communicate with each other. One reason is because “at night, if the guards stepped away from the cells the whole barricades would start tapping morse code” (154). Clearly, this is a way of communication between the men since they couldn’t talk. A second example of Louie being creative is the time “Others tied up their pant cuffs, stuck the reeds in their waistbands, and filled their pants with sugar” (180). Meaning, instead of getting caught and going through the consequences, the men thought of ideas and came up to this. The last reason is because “he tied the strings tight, piercing into the benjp, jammed one end of the reed through the knothole, piercing the rice sack, then put the other end into his pajamas. Rice steamed through the reed and into his pants” (205). Obviously, it shows that Louie used his resources and decided to use his pants as that resource. Without Louie and his men of roommates, he probably wouldn’t have made it through about any of